Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He envisaged this as a well-balanced wheel driven by a lead weight suspended from its axle so that it would make one revolution between sunrise and sunset . |
| 2 | On Aug. 20 France declared that it would contribute 10 Mirage 2000 jets ; more than 200 US aircraft were believed already to be operating in the area . |
| 3 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 4 | On Aug. 3 the European Commission announced that it would send 10,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to Somalia to support the work of the ICRC in Somalia . |
| 5 | The Rome-based World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced that it would allocate 31,000 tonnes of food for refugees , while France , Japan and Argentina undertook to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees and distribute relief supplies . |
| 6 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 7 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 8 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 9 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 10 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 11 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 12 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 13 | Later it announced that it would catch 296 minke whales this year — a level based on the recommendations of the IWC scientific committee and regarded as inadequate by many Norwegian whalers . |
| 14 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 15 | At the same time , however , reports of a hardening in the US negotiating position appeared to be confirmed after the USA announced on Oct. 15 that it would sell 870,000 tonnes of subsidised vegetable oil worth US$377,000,000 to 11 countries . |
| 16 | The European Commission announced on Sept. 3 that it would buy 45,000 tonnes of surplus Hungarian wheat for transportation to Albania by rail in December . |
| 17 | Just before Christmas SBC announced that it would cut 500 jobs in Switzerland as part of an economy drive . |
| 18 | The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate . |
| 19 | A more explicit example of a contract suggests that it should contain three elements : |
| 20 | Built into the fabric of this entitlement is the requirement that it should embrace five curriculum characteristics , the first three being that it must be broad , balanced and relevant . |
| 21 | Volume shipments will start in July , at $1,231 apiece for quantities of over 10,000 — although it 's difficult to conceive of any third party able to forecast that it will ship 10,000 machines during the lifetime of the chip , and even the most optimistic parallel processor builder could hardly hope to ship that many nodes in any foreseeable time-frame . |
| 22 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 23 | In Safrane , the engine has been deliberately tuned to favour torque output with the result that it can deliver 115 lb-ft from 1,500 rpm upwards — so producing an extremely flexible power curve . |
| 24 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
| 25 | There 's also a close correlation by not just the erm the size of the number for G , but how long can it go on pulling that G given the thrust and the aerodynamic capabilities of the machine and we are essentially building this aircraft so that it can sustain nine G and we are providing the pilot with the sort of equipment he requires to be able to survive in that kind of environment . |
| 26 | Thus , the presence of solifluxion on a raised beach means that it must precede one glaciation , but this merely fixes its age as pre-last glaciation and gives no indication of how many glaciations have passed since the beach was formed . |
| 27 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 28 | It 's on the sixth of July and it 'll cost forty pounds . |
| 29 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 30 | And it 'll take six weeks before the plaster can come off this fox . |